The oxygen exchange in the lungs takes place across the membranes of small balloon-like structures called alveoli attached to the branches of the bronchial passages. These alveoli inflate and deflate with inhalation and exhalation. The behavior of the alveoli is largely dictated by LaPlace's law and surface tension.
John Adams and his wife Abigail had six children. His oldest daughter, Abigail, was born in 1765, and future president John Quincy Adams was born in 1767. A second daughter, Susanna, was born in 1768, followed by Charles in 1770, Thomas Boylston in 1772 and Elizabeth in 1777. Continue Reading.
Estimates put the family's net worth north of a billion dollars. In 2005, Steve Adams and his wife donated $100 million to the Yale School of Music, a gift he revealed three years later in a Wine Spectator article about his vineyards in California and France. Adams has four sons. The second, Mark Adams, is CEO of the publishing group. Minneapolis Star Tribune publisher Mike Klingensmith told me he had never heard of any of them until Adams Publishing began buying suburban weeklies in a ring around the Minneapolis metro in 2016. He later had several business meetings with Mark. Mark Adams